The good news today: Josh Beckett is pitching. Not Andrew Miller, not John Lackey, but Josh Beckett.
He's pretty good.
The interesting news today: Kevin Youkilis is hitting fifth, and David Ortiz is in the cleanup spot. Kind of a long time in coming if you ask me, especially against a righty.
The bad news is: We're 2-4 in our last couple of series, which nearly brings the Sox back to that damned .500 mark we'd been floating around for a month. So a series win in a 4-game set? That'd be pretty nice.
But back to the lineup stuff:
They'll have an interesting young righty to work against. The fastball - changeup thing gave the Sox some difficulties in 2010, but Ellsbury, Gonzalez, and Crawford are amongst the best at hitting that particular pitch, so hopefully that evens things out nicely.
And, of course, Josh Beckett:
Go Sox!